One of the latest technology that powered Windows Vista is the SuperFetch technology that makes your favorite programs load faster. How the SuperFetech technology works is it studies the programs that an individual user frequently runs and loads them into memory automatically (be ready to have all your memory sucks by Windows Vista).

For instance, if you run Adobe Photoshop and Firebox every single day, ten Windows Vista will be smart enough to load these applications at start-up .

Hence, in perfect world, Windows Vista susposingly load programs faster because of SuperFetch technology.

Nevertheless, suse Linux kernel developer Andrea Arcangeli was skeptical about this technology. He said “”It might help on a 128MB system that flushes the cache away very fast, but on a 1GB system I doubt it can make a significant difference, and at first glance, it doesn’t seem to be worth the complexity it would introduce,” the Imola, Italy-based developer said in an e-mail interview.”

Arcangeli also said that “in many cases, preloading new memory means flushing away an existing cache. “So it’s not like it’s a “risk-free” operation,” he said. “It may be a good trade-off but it can actually slowdown the system instead of making it faster.”"

We are going to see whether Windows can really beat Linux in terms of performance.

via News.com

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